“ Originally Posted by nds1
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
1 Cor 15:44-45 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
So again, the relationship between the soul and spirit is talked about here.
Still, no one has yet to answer what "we" are in the afterlife.
-Are we souls, are we spirits, or are we both?
-Do angels have souls?
-Does God have a soul?
-It seems that spirits, evil or good, have the ability to "possess" or "dwell in" physical bodies.
-Souls can't it seems. Would souls and spirits have similar capacities in terms of the afterlife? ”
That is a lot of really good questions.
Genesis records two "creations" of man, seemingly repeating itself.
The Bible never does that.
If recorded twice, it was for a reason.
The first man, was a son of God.
God is a spirit, and so was this man...made in His image.
The second man, was the flesh man...made to represent in flesh these genes of God, His attributes expressed in this dimension, one slower than heaven.....Earth.
The fall separated the two, leaving a breach between man and God.
The soul from God is an attribute, a gene of God which when expressed becomes a son of God.
Jesus Christ was the "beginning of the creation of God"....the "firstborn of many brethren"
1 Cor. 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Adam was a son of God, made a living soul.
So would be his children though Seth...."sons of God"
Not Cain's children though.
They were from a different seed.
The two crossed however before the flood in Gen. 6.
The two seeds mixed.
This is the parable of the wheat and the tares.
Jesus the last Adam......was made a quickening Spirit, by dying and coming upon the seeds laid in the ground of human flesh to bring them to life...quickening them.
He is called "The "firstborn of many brethren"
Remember He said, unless a corn of wheat fall into the ground, it abideth alone?
That was the reason for the fulfillment of sacrifice, to breach the void separating God and man.
And explains the type of a lamb as the sacrifice.
An innocent animal.
God in a man born of woman.
Jesus wasn't just God's son.
He was God.
"The fullness of the Godhead bodily"
The trinity doctrine confuses this and is an error.
There was a animal involved in human bloodlines at the fall.
When Eve produced Cain by a sexual relationship with someone other than Adam.
Jesus being God born of a woman, had to come this way, and die releasing His Spirit to come back upon all mankind, to manifest what is in the two seeds and seperate them at the harvest.
This is a great mystery of the kingdom, that unlocks the parables about it.
The scriptures saying;
-"the way of an adulterous woman, she eateth and wipeth her mouth, saying I've done nothing"
-"I'll put enmity between your seed and the woman's seed"
-Cain was of his father the wicked one"
-Jesus calling pharisees; "a generation of vipers"
-Jesus saying unto you it's been given (to know the mysteries of the kingdom),but unto them...it's not been given"
All these are hints to this mystery.....and there are so many more if you search.
This also deals with the mystery of iniquity...
Through the fall, the "evil spirits" as you said can anoint the flesh of both the children of the kingdom, and the children of the world.
-So the good seed can appear to do bad things.
Also since the sacrifice of Jesus, the Holy Spirit falls upon all flesh now - The Rain - to anoint both seeds and bring them to manifestation.
-So the bad seed can appear to do good things.......manifest gifts of the Spirit even.
This is why Jesus rebuked the disciples for rejocing in spiritual gifts, but rather to rejoice for having their names on the Book.
These "false anointed ones" are so close to the others they are almost imposible to tell apart.
They can impersonate by the anointing of the Holy Spirit any manifestation of the gifts...
The rain must fall upon the "just and unjust alike" to bring the Earth to the harvest....only then can they be separated.
-How they are seperated.
-The angels that do it.
-The economy of God
-The second coming in secret.
-The anti-Christ spirit, the beast, the man of sin.
-The manifestation of the sons of God.
All these mysteries and more are tied to this.....
But....these mysteries are meant to be left that way to the masses.
Only God will reveal this further to an individual through spiritual revelation.
I've said all I should,(probably way to much) and to say more would do no good anyway...even if you did believe me.
You must get this revelation for yourself from God.
Jesus said to Peter; "who do men say that I am?"
Peter replied;"Thou art the Christ, Son of the living God"
Blessed art thou......because you didn't get this revelation from men....but the "Father" which is in heaven has revealed it to you.
Against this; spiritual revelation to an individual from God Himself,.....the gates of hell can not prevail.
The afterlife would depend for one on where you fall in the economy of God.
It is a real physical existance, not something ethereal.
Faith is given to you of God, as a gift...., but what you take there with you from here is your character.
Character is a victory.
"To him that overcomes I will grant to sit with me in my throne as I also overcame and am sit down in my Father's throne".
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